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1stEuropean Youth
Olympic Trials
Moscow, Russia
15. European Athletics Anti-Doping Educational Programme
European Athletics is determined to increase its fight against doping. We want to ensure a
clean sport and fairness amongst all competitors. One way is to search for cheating athletes
through doping controls. We are continuously improving our testing programme at our
events, however, controls and tests are only a tool to identify those athletes that already
broke the rules and have cheated everybody by doping.
We want to support the true and clean athletes when they start to engage in our sport. We
need to show them that we are ready to help them and to give them guidance to
challenge doping. European Athletics aims to promote education for awareness,
knowledge and prevention. Only if the athletes know the rules and know the danger of
doping they can act in the right way.
As a long term goal we desire to contribute with our programme to promote the ideal of
fairness and respect among athletes. We need to fight doping as it is destroying the
fundamental principle of our sport: fair play.
In order to target the youngest group of athletes, the programme which is supported by the
UNESCO, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the IAAF will be implemented for the
third time at the European Youth Olympic Trials in Moscow/RUS (21-23 May 2010).
Please encourage your athletes to take part in this important programme. Only together we
can make our sport drug free.
15. 1. Procedure of the Programme at the Championships:
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All competing athletes will have a chance to take part in an electronic quiz and also to
learn with and interactive education tool to increase their knowledge about doping. The
quiz is a multiple choice test which will give a detailed explanation in case of wrong
answers, while the interactive tool gives the possibility to learn more about anti-doping
procedures and side effects of drugs.
The programme will run on all 3 competition days in order to give all athletes the possibility to
take part.
Participant of the Anti-Doping Education Programme will be invited for a lottery, where
athletes can win event passes valid for the whole period of the European Outdoor
Championships in Barcelona/ESP on 26 July – 1 August 2010 (every winner gets two passes).
The winners of the lottery will be announced during the closing ceremony.
Further information will be given to the athletes upon arrival and displayed at the event
venue.